Organic chemistry

I have an organic chemistry topic test scheduled for Friday, which is in one day, and I am aiming to achieve an A grade. I have completed some practice questions and understand the key concepts; however, I am struggling with drawing structural isomers and answering questions that ask how many structural isomers a compound can form.
I would also like to ask whether using the blurting technique to memorise the content, alongside completing a large number of practice questions, would be the most effective revision strategy for this test. Although 1 am revising, I have been making some avoidable mistakes at home, such as errors in nomenclature or forgetting functional groups, which I believe may be due to exam stress.

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artful_lounger

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Given this is presumably not a formal, externally assessed exam, I think you should focus less on getting a grade from a test that I assume will form no part of the assessment, and focus more on understanding the material and being able to apply it. In the long run that will improve your actual results on the real exam at the end of the course more than short-term revision techniques to get a grade on an formative interim test will.

The grade in this test is just a measurement, not an objective.

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